Manufacturing Content today released Tractor Beam 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. The retro arcade title is part of the wave of lo-fi games released for the high tech multitouch platform. Tractor Beam combines the popular “swinging games” style of gameplay with the look of Atari’s ‘Asteroids’, adding modern features like a dynamic ambient soundtrack. It is among the new wave of games embracing the latest technology but with a nod to the classic games of eras gone by.

The game itself could be said to be a part of the popular “Swinging Games” genre recently highlighted by Apple on the App Store, along with favorites like ‘Hook Champ.’ This gameplay is then transposed to the world of arcade games circa 1979, with the player instead swinging a spaceship through an increasingly dense asteroid field.

Inspired by endless nights playing Atari’s ‘Asteroids’ and a fascination with the latest in Apple technology, Tractor Beam’s developers aimed to create an intuitive game with broad appeal that would recapture some of the glory of classic arcade games while offering the benefits of Apple’s platform, not the least of which is the ability to choose your own background music from the iPod application. Its own evolving loop-based soundtrack is something that would not have been possible in the games it emulates while the music itself is reminescent of classic science fiction movies. Continued…

Atlanta, Georgia – With more and more people using Safari on the iPhone to browse the Web for work and play, the lack of in-page search functionality in this popular mobile Web browser is baffling. If one has ever used the “Edit – Find” feature of traditional Web browsers, one must wonder why it is not available in Safari on the iPhone. There are alternatives, but neither hits the mark in terms of convenience, usability, and reliability:

a) Install and use one of the third-party Web browsers available on the App Store – replacing Safari entirely.
b) Use one of the less-than-stellar “bookmarklets” circa 2007 that feature no user interface for navigation among search results and suffer from a number of technical, as well as general usability issues.

Unsatisfied with these options and tired of waiting for Apple to add in-page search to mobile Safari, the developer of Find In Page simply created his own app to deliver this missing feature to iPhone and iPod touch users via the App Store. Find In Page app delivers its functionality in the form of a “bookmarklet” – the only way new features can be added directly to the mobile Safari browser. Once installed, accessing in-page search functionality is exactly 2 taps – same as the two clicks required for “Edit – Find” in traditional browsers.

In-page search is one of the most important productivity tools for doing serious research on the Web, as well as simply getting oriented in larger webpages. It significantly reduces the amount of time required to review search engine results: instead of scanning and reading each page for relevance, you can use in-page search to look for relevant keywords, saving time and frustration. Ability to search text, especially in long webpages is critical to mastery of online content. Now this vital productivity tool is available to iPhone users.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Find In Page 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store.

Features:
* Document Sync – get instant anywhere access to any document, spreadsheet, presentation, or pdf you have synced. Great for flights, subway travel – any place your internet connection is unreliable.
* Document Stars – ensure important docs are synced by just starring them. And change the starred status of docs right from your phone for streamlined management.
* Syncing Options – synchronize starred documents to your phone by default, or have all or none of your documents synced. Continued…

ATC Pro is a realistic sim application that puts users in control of the flow of aircraft in and out of airports. Planes arrive from a map edge location, announced by an audio ding. It is up to the user to clear aircraft for takeoffs and guide each plane to its intended destination, which may be an airport or fly-over to another map edge. Any traffic coming into the simulated air traffic controller’s airspace must also be landed safely.

All aspects of flight safety are up to the user. Once they get a plane in the sky at the right altitude, users can make any adjustments necessary for the flight’s heading. Beginners are happy for the takeoff and landing tutorials that are included. The ATC Pro format differs from other air traffic simulation games. Many, if not most, use a normal radar interface. ATC Pro utilizes a USGS map approach for more interesting and realistic playing experiences. Players have the option of indulging in the disastrous side of air travel with ATC Pro. They can adjust settings to allow crashes, near misses and other emergencies, complete with a roaring fireball and other appropriate sounds and graphics.

There is a scoring system for each of the included simulated scenarios listed below:
* Handle 5 landings (practice)
* Handle 5 takeoffs (practice)
* Handle 10 aircraft landing and taking off
* Handle 20 aircraft landing and taking off
* Play Until Incident (crash or lost aircraft)
* Play 5 minute speed round
* Play 10 minute speed round Continued…

Rochester, New York – No Tie Software today is proud to introduce 9,999 Ringtones Uncensored and AutoRingtone TEXT-TO-SPEECH, both for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Musical Ringtones are so 2009. Everybody has the same one and you have to guess which tone is for which contact. What people want is Talking Caller ID Ringtones. Introducing AutoRingtone & Ringtones Uncensored.

Whatever your name is, whomever is calling, there’s a ringtone for that. Users can select from 20 voices including quality commercially licensed voices such as British Man or Woman. They can also use 100+ introductory sound effects as fun attention getters. With AutoRingtone, users simply type the name of a contact to create a talking ringtone. Ringtones Uncensored lets users type any message they want and have it turned into a talking ringtone!

No wonder 9,999 Ringtones Uncensored has become a bestselling Top 15 Social Networking app in its first week of availability. In fact, over 100,000 unique AutoRingtones have been created so far. And many are leveraging the “uncensored” feature. Why settle for built-in stock ringtones or even third-party ringtone collections when you can have each caller’s name, title, and a personal message spoken out loud! No more guessing who is calling or whose phone is ringing! Continued…

NCH Software’s Express Dictate Software
Now Available As Free iPhone AppDictation Software Coming to Android Next

Express Dictate, called Pocket Dictate at Apple’s app store, allows you to record and send dictation directly from your PC, Mac, PocketPC, Palm, SmartPhone, and now iPhone. The software is a professional dictation voice recorder that works like a traditional Dictaphone with HIPAA compliant for secure encryption.

Accounting firms, medical practices, and law firms in particular have the need for dictation and transcription software that cuts out time, and even secretarial needs. A lawyer can dictate while at the courthouse, hit send and have the audio file emailed to their transcriptionist instantly.

“Express Dictate is the most useful productivity tool in my arsenal,” said Richard Georges, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based lawyer whose practice handles real property, corporations, wills, trusts and estates law. “You can email the dictation, send it to a specified location on any computer in your network, and it sits in the active application tray, just waiting to be used.”

It will also use any microphone and speaker combination. “I just dictate into my phone, and it’s ready to email to the transcriptionist,” Georges said. Continued…

Byte Squared today is proud to announce the release of Doc2 3.0, an update to its word processor application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Doc2 now includes support for the Microsoft Word .doc format and integration with Google Docs. Doc2 features easy character and paragraph formatting, copy and paste, with up to 100 levels of undo/redo. There is support for tables, as well as images. Auto-correction and auto-completion and searching of text within documents is also included.

Maidenhead, UK – Byte Squared today is proud to announce the release of Doc2 3.0, an update to its word processor application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Doc2 now includes support for the Microsoft Word .doc format and integration with Google Docs. Pronounced “Doc Squared”, provides formatted text editing with the following features:

General Features:
* View, create, edit and save documents in Word 97-2003 (.doc) format
* Compatibility with Microsoft Word, NeoOffice and any other .doc compatible word processor
* Character formatting, including text and fill color, bold, italic, underline, font face and size
* Paragraph formatting including alignment, indenting, bullets and numbering
* Support for tables, including table creation
* Support for images, including inserting of images from the camera roll or pasting from other programs
* Searching of text within documents
* Undo and redo, up to 100 undo levels
* Copy and paste within the app in addition to copy and paste of text and images from other applications, including Safari
* Auto-correction and auto-completion are supported

Byte Squared CEO Simon Bates said: “This is the first word processor app to tightly integrate with Google Docs, giving our users ubiquitous access to their data over the cloud from either desktop or iPhone.”

Minimum Requirements:
iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Doc2 3.0 is $3.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

DVR4-2500 Security Kit with four indoor/outdoor security cameras allows for remote viewing over the web & now on iPhone™

Santa Fe Springs, CA – (December 21, 2009) – Swann Security, the global leader in security monitoring solutions, proudly debuts its latest all-in-one security solution, the DVR4-2500 Security Recorder Kit with Internet Viewing. Swann’s latest kit is comprised of the DVR4-2500 recorder, four indoor/outdoor cameras with night vision, a remote control, mouse and all the cables, connectors and adaptors needed to set up the system. The DVR4-2500 also features remote viewing capabilities over the internet and for the first time, is capable of streaming live and recorded video to the iPhone™.Continued…

fring, the multi-award winning mobile application that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences from their mobile devices, today announces the first ever mobile video calls over Internet for the iPhone.

These holidays, only iPhone and iPod touch users with fring can talk with and also see their family and friends on Skype or fring, from anywhere, for free, over Wi-Fi internet connection. This is the first video over internet service on the iPhone or iPod touch.

This video feature is embedded within the fring application that enables free voice calls from the iPhone and iPod Touch to other fring users, Skype and GTalk buddies as well as friends on regular phone lines via Skype-Out and hundreds of popular SIP services. fring users can live chat, update profiles, share files and talk with friends from several Instant Messaging services like MSN, AIM, GoogleTalk and Skype, in addition to interacting with popular online social networks like Twitter ,all from one integrated fring contact list. Continued…

Kabuki Vision today released NoteMaster 2.3, an update to their popular note-taking app for iPhone and iPod Touch. NoteMaster makes it easy to create great-looking notes by inserting images, photos, and headers right inside the text. Fonts can be selected for each note for a customized look. Other features include categories, password-protection, hyperlink detection, full-text search, e-mail, and syncing with Google Docs. Version 2.3 allows font selection and supports hyperlinks.

San Diego, California – Kabuki Vision has just released an update to their popular note-taking app NoteMaster for iPhone and iPod Touch. NoteMaster, already well-known for its ability to create great-looking notes that contain text, images, and headers, now extends its capabilities in version 2.3 by allowing for font selection and supporting hyperlinks. Continued…

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